Museo La Tertulia. Centro de Documentación.

Museo La Tertulia. Centro de Documentación e Investigación (Cedoc) 

The various documentary supports that the Museum La Tertulia owns, conserve a large part of its history, as well as the one of the national art of the last sixty years. During this period, Cali, the capital of the Valle del Cauca region was the place where events that historically marked the country took place. In the decade of the 50s the Municipality did not have an adequate infrastructure to conduct exhibition activities, lectures and meetings with artists. With a view to putting an end to this gap, the cultural space of “La Tertulia” is created in a house located in the neighborhood of San Antonio in Cali. The activities of this institution formed an echo that strengthened and nurtured Cali’s urban development.

In the decade of the 60s, the Museum was built next to the River Cali in a place known as El Charco del Burro. At that time, the city was getting ready for the Pan-American Games and the Museum La Tertulia promoted and led the Pan-American Graphic Arts Exhibition. After the consolidation of the Museum in 1968, five American Biennials of Graphic Arts were produced in this institution and a school of graphic arts was established, which led to different exchanges, portfolios and exhibitions of artists, icons of Colombian and Latin American art.

From its first headquarters in the house of San Antonio and later in its current headquarters, the Museum La Tertulia has prepared, preserved and accumulated a documentary collection in which the ideas, the speeches, the ways of doing and referring to visual arts in different types of documentation have been registered: catalogs, invitations, newsletters, brochures and internal administrative documents, registration and monitoring documents of these processes, information about the Museum published in regional and national newspapers.